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believe in yourself and take one day at a time. your ability to change their lives. that is inspiring. >> those babies are so cute. martha ryan, you're my hero. thank you for watching. i'm ashleigh banfield with this type for this weekend, close your blinds. i'll see you on monday with our brand new show. "around the world" starts now. a new terror threat and a chilly relationship with russia. they are tough topics the president will discuss today at his news conference. >> two turkish airline pilots kidnapped. oprah winfrey says she's a target of racism. she wanted to look at a $38,000
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bag in switerland but the clerk wouldn't let her. it's not clear if this is connected to the broader threat that prompted closing 19 embassies and consulates. they ordered all to leave. officials say the decision was in response to specific threats against the consulate. >> pakistan remains a hot bed of violence internal and external. the city is home to extremists who have sympathy to al qaeda. >> they have been working with the pakistani military. from russia with love might have been a great movie but there's
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little between the u.s. and russia now. >> president obama likely to face a few questions about the strained relations when we gives that news conference we just mentioned this afternoon. just this week the president cancelled a one-on-one meeting with president putin ahead of the g-8 summit that takes place next month. >> russia's decision to grant asylum to edward snowden was a major factor. a lot of things we're dealing with. i want to bring fran townsend into the mix. one of the thing s i remember cn covering president obama. it was the russian equivalent of camp david. putin would not look at him. he would not face him eye to yies. an obama advisor said obama sat there for more than an hour just listening to putin vent. the two of them are not going to get together.
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he's not going to listen to him. >> as you're leading suggested there's been for over a year and a half -- there's the iranian nuclear program. there's the boston bombings duo information. the russians have passed information to the fbi and were criticized after the boston bombing for not having followed up. it might have allowed the fbi to do disrupt it. there was always the alleged american spy recently that the russians expelled. then you have on top of all of that the snowden asylum being granted in russia. we really at an all time low, back to the battle days of the
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cold war. this is an important relationship. both heads of state will have too find some common ground because they're going to have to talk about really important political and geo political issues like syria. they're facing the g-20. there are issues relayed to china and the broader middle east and so thaifr got a lot they'll have to find way some common ground to be able to talk about. >> i suppose the one-on-one talks were cancelled, they will see each other at the g-8. you have the u.s. secretary of state. the defense meeting with their russian counter part. what do we expect from that? perhaps a little behind the scenes thawing. >> i think that's exactly right. you can expect that secretary kerry is looking to identify some common ground for the two leaders when they come together at the g-20. i thought secretary kerry had a
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great line where he said like old hockey players, sometimes in hockey, big players collide. that's sort of what's happened. they need to pick themselves up and find some common ground to rebuild a relationship on. i think that's exactly what secretary kerry is trying to do today. >> specifically, what do you expect the kinds of questions the president will get at his press conference? >> i think the president will be prepared to face the question. did secretary kerry, in his meetings today, raise the issue of snowden? was there a discussion about that? are the russians cooperating on the terror threat and in what ways? i think the president will be expected to answer sort of where do we go from here and what are the things being terms in trying to reopen the relationship. >> going back to russia, i'm
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curious your take on this. mr. putin is likely to feel snubbed. when you look at the issues that you touched on, russia thinks they have the upper hand. do they even need the u.s. as a good mate? >> i think you're exactly right. i suspect that president putin does feel like he had the upper hand. when the white house announced they were catching the bilateral there had been word leaking out that the kremlin planned to cancelled. i agree with you and i expect this will be a long cold thaw. i don't think it will rebuild itself quickly or easily. >> thanks for that. >> interesting. it's a very chilly relationship. from the very beginning you look at the body language, there was not a lot to work with in the beginning. >> and even recently too. russia has a lot of oil. they have an economic incentive
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to go we don't care. you come to us. >> we'll see how the meeting goes. now to a troubling revelation by one of the world's biggest celebrities. we're talking about oprah winfrey. she told "intentertainment toni" she was the victim of racism. >> she said a sales woman didn't recognize her and refused to show her an expensive handbag. >> i say may i see that bag right above your head. she says to me, no. it's too expensive. >> i said, the black one. the one that's folded over. she said no, you don't want to see that one. you want to see this one because that one will cost too much. i said, well, i really did want to see that one. she refused to get it.
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>> we got to mention that oprah said she was dressed nicely. she felt it was obvious the sales woman couldn't not think that she wasn't somebody who could afford the bag. she thinks it's about race. what did oprah do after she was refused to see the bag? >> michael, first of all, she was in town for tina turner's wedding. she went into the store alone. when she kept pressing to see the bag, the salesperson wouldn't show it to her. she said she just walked out of store quietly. she did say she thought about making a scene and calling the woman out on it but she thought and i'm quoting her, why do that? >> she's calling attention to it now. is the store responding in any way? are they explaining what happened here? do they believe this was a racist incident from one of their staff? >> yeah, they are explaining their side of it. oprah did not name the store but
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our colleagues at cnn in europe contacted the manager of the shop that we know. the manager told us this was a 200% misunderstanding. they went onto explain in part and this is from their statement to us. mrs. oprah then asked her how much it was, meaning the sales assistant and she said 35,000 swiss francs which in u.s. is $38,000. she just wanted to look at the bag and didn't want it taken down and my sales assistant felt embarrassed about the price she quickly said she had the model in other materials such as ostrich and suede. the store says it's all a big misunderstanding. i'm not sure if maybe there was a language barrier or something there. not really sure. oprah is pretty strident in the fact she believes the lady did not want to show her the bag because she thought she could
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not afford it. >> did they have any idea it was oprah winfrey? >> not that it would matter. >> exactly. she certainly could afford this. >> you're right. even if they didn't know, it shouldn't matter. because in the response from the store they did say mrs. oprah went in. i believe somebody knew it was oprah. >> the manager did say the sales woman spoke a little english but her main thing is she spoke mainly italian. maybe language did play into it a little bit. it could have been a misunderstanding but that's not the sense oprah has. g >> no. she doesn't believe she faces overt racism on a regular basis especially in the united states. she said she thinks the racism is more subtle.
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i want to give you an idea of what she said to me if we can take a listen real quick. >> nobody is going to come up to me and call me the n word unless they are on twitter and i can't find them. >> twitter thugs. >> the twitter thugs. i've learned to leave the twitter thugs alone. unless it's something ridiculous, nobody's going to do it. i experience racism in ways that you experience when you have reached a level where people can't call you to your face out of your name. i experience it through people's expectations and lack thereof. i use it to my advantage. it's a wonderful thing when people count you out because they think you can't do something. >> while she didn't allude to the specific incident of the handbag store but she did say that a lot of times she experiences people not having
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expectations that she can do something or afford something or do something. that's what she says happened here. >> thanks so much. >> former president bush called it the soft bigotry of low expectations. that's exactly right. that happens anywhere in education. that's what african-americans are facing. oprah winfrey an amazing movie i had a chance to see touching on key chapters of history. >> you saw this? >> i saw it. it's based oen a true story of a man who grew up. he was poor in the south. served for eight presidents as a butler in the white house. we get a chance to be see history play out through his eyes. watch this. >> we have no tolerance for politics at the white house. >> i'm cecil gains. i'm the new butler. >> you hear nothing. you see nothing. you always serve. >> the white house called him.
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he didn't call the white house. >> i want to hear the stories. >> i don't know how much stories you're going to hear because they done swore him to some secret code. i'm so proud of you. >> did grow to an all colored school in. >> i didn't go to school, mr. president. i grew up on the cotton farm. >> next hour we'll talk to the film's director and the actor in that, forest whittaker. unbelievable performance and just a-list actors in this film. takes you all the way through when the president is elected, president obama. >> take me to the premier next time. here is more of what we're working on this hour. they say they were captured, beaten, even tortured. the dark side of the protest going on in egypt. >> translator: they took me to the state and tied me down and beat me. then they gave me this and this. >> awful. could there be a helpful
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high? dr. sanjay gupta explains why he's in favor of the medical use of marijuana. don't we all hate those pesty fees and high interest rates on our credit cards. one man in russia took matters into his own hands. he changed the fine print. the credit card company didn't read the fine print. we'll explain when we come back.
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show your car a little love with an oil change starting at $19.95. now to the africa where a large cargo plane crashed and burned. the plane belonged to the ethiopian air force. >> four crew members were killed in the crash. no word on what caused it. in egypt today crowds of people who want their elected president back in power not going quietly despite the urging of the government. >> since morsi was forced from office by the egyptian military the streets and the squares of cairo are filled almost every day with people demanding that he be brought back. sometimes those protests have
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also turned violent. >> about 250 people so far have died in street fighting in cairo over this. arwa is there. some people say it's the morsi supporters who are responsible for a lot of violence and death. >> reporter: over water pipes and coffee shops, under banner of some of those killed, the main topic of intense and often angry conversation is the ongoing pro-morsi sit in right next door at cairo university. he took a bullet to the leg. fired by whom? he doesn't know. his friend was in a different incident says he was dragged out of the building where he works by morsi supporters. >> translator: they took me to the stage and tied me down and beat me he says and then they gave me this and this.
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he still doesn't know how he survived. he says there were half a dozen others with him who didn't. his face is still bruised. his toes swollen from the beating he received more than a week ago. >> i prayed with them. sure he heard the stories about torture inside but he didn't believe it. they tied my hands and feet and blind folded me he tells us. then they started beating. i can't describe the beating to you. he was accused of being an anti-morsi infiltrator. someone put a gun to my head and cocked it. he pulled the trigger but no bullet came out. he says it happened on the roof top of one of the buildings at
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this park right next to the sit-in area. there's been numerous reports of corpses found in the streets nearby. there has been five documented cases. this is the park everyone from the neighborhood is not so far and warning us not to come here saying we would be slaughtered. we have been speaking to people and they say those allegations of torture are false. be muslim brotherhood denies involvement in acts of killing and torture but says it cannot control its supporters. the approximately 250 people killed since morsi was ousted from power, the majority have been his supporters. human rights watchdogs documenting violations on both sides are voicing growing concerns. >> it's an obstacle to finding a
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political solution when you have this hatred, demonization of the other. that makes it more difficult to bridge the gaps. >> reporter: with the threat of more bloodshed looming the divide is only going to get worse. >> arwa is live in cairo. it's just after 7:00 p.m. the crowds were out again today. the question has got to be, the interim government saying we're going to move on you if you don't go away. we're going to be here till next ramadan. what's going to happen?
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>> reporter: that's the big question. that's why there's so many fears about this increase in bloodshed that could take place. this year is one of the squares that the government says it wants to clear out. you can see it's women, it's children, it's families. we're now on day two of the three day holiday that comes at the end of the holy month of ramadan. people have been flocking here choosing not to celebrate with their families at home but rather come here. they feel like they need to continue to make this political statement. for many of them it's gone beyond whether he should be returned to power. it's based on the principle he was part of a democratically elected government. they feel as if their power was taken from them. even though it's meant to be a time of celebration, there's rides for kids and face painting, this whole crisis is really overshadowing everything.
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>> all right. arwa we'll leave it there. it's a little ladelay from cair from atlanta. that was a record breaking delay. >> eight seconds, i think it was. he now supports medical marijuana. it's our own dr. sanjay gupta. he found some patients use marijuana in hospitals. we'll tell you where, up next. o, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap.
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have we been misled for decades about medical marijuana? our own dr. sanjay gupta says yes after almost a year of reporting on this. >> he new documentary will make you rethink what you thought about weed. >> people are lighting up all over the country. they call it the green rush. marijuana has moved out of the
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back alleys and into the open. in some states it's legal to grow, to sell, to smoke and marijuana could be legalized in a city near you. so easy to get and many think so harmless. when the smoke clears is marijuana bad for you or could pot be good for you? >> so sanjay joins us. you have traveled around the world for the last year exploring this. it has gotten tremendous response. everybody is very curious about how you came to this new conclusion that you have about specifically medical marijuana. tell us a bit about it. >> i think part of this when you look at the medical journals in the united states there's some 20,000 papers will pop up when you look for medical marijuana. most of them designed to look at the harm, the problems, the pea perils. it took getting outside of the
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country, quite literally, and seeing the research going on in other places and seeing the patients and recognizing in a place like jerusalem they allow patients to use marijuana in the hospital. i saw patients vaporizing marijuana inside the hospital. they have done the science. they have concluded there's some benefit an let the patients use it in hospitals and nursing homes for very specific problems. >> you changed your own mind about this. i urge people to look at your article on cnn.com. what is it about marijuana that does work for some people? >> when you think about marijuana it's lots of different chemicals. the one that everyone pays attention to is thc. that's the psycho active part that gets people high. there's another chemical known as cbd.
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people have been experimenting and researching its medicinal properties. there's now research into ptsd as a neuroprotectant. you see real progress. >> address the difference between medicinal use and recreational. they look at alcohol how it's abu abused. >> i understand that. i thought a lot about this. i have kids and my kids will be able to google this conversation and say what did you mean by that? i think there's a light line and distinction between the two. i don't want anyone who still has developing brain up to age 25 to think about using this.
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this isn't about recreational use. everyone brings up this moral equivalence argument that alcohol is legal. you can look at the facts. dependence is about 9% in marijuana and 15% with alcohol. with alcohol withdrawal can be life threatening. people die of alcohol overdoses. i've never seen that with marijuana. medical marijuana should stand on its own. people shouldn't be denied it because we're concerned about the recreational use. >> it was interesting in the article that it's been demonized not because of sound science but because of lack of science which is great line. >> it was the absence of sense. >> very mellow sunday good day. everyone will tune in.
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welcome back. nobody knows the fate of two airline pilots who were kidnapped today from an airline bus by men with guns. >> this happened in beirut, lebanon. they were on the bus between the beirut airport and they hotel. several gunmen stopped the bus, ran on board and grabbed the pilots. >> let's go straight to beirut. this could be a very complex story to tell you.
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you have turkish pilots in beirut. the kidnappers likely to be worried about what's happening in syria. >> reporter: absolutely. this is a complicated tale to tell and one that's hard to untangle. this was an audacious kidnapping. it happened around 3:00 a.m. local time. an investigation is ongoing. he's been in touch with the t h tushitus tushish ambassador. many people here believe that this happened as a direct result of the fall out from the syrian civil war. here is why. the reason for this is because many people think this kidnapping today was in retaliation for the kidnapping of lebanese shiite pilgrims that happened last year. we heard there's a group that claimed responsible that's saying their demanding the
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release of these heights lebanese pilgrims and they will release these turkish pilots. the turks have supported the syrian rebels. here in lebanon this country is divided when it comes to the syrian civil war. there's anger toward the turks from some quarters here in lebanon. >> all intertwined across borders. thanks so much. there's doubt about what the government can do. >> whether or not they have any influence at all. read the fine print. number one rule when you sign something. one russian man turns it to his advantage. he turns it on his head with a credit card and a bank that fails to read the fine print. we'll have that next. it's simp. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion.
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all right. read the fine print. that's the warning that drilled in our heads. read the fine print. >> exactly. when ever you're doing a contract, getting something legal, read the fine print. a russian bank didn't follow that rule when it received a credit card application from a man who got creative with the paper work. >> he scratched out all the fees, interest rates, 0%.
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gave him unlimited credit. something we would love and the bank issues him the card any way. we want to bring in richard quest to talk about how this even happened in the first place. >> speaking of somebody with unlimited credit. >> can you lend me a fiver for the weekend. it's simple. he's 42 and the company sent him an application for a credit card. so far so good. you and i have had many of those sent to us in the mail. what he did was scanned it. he changed the terms and conditions. he took off the interest rate. he gave himself no credit limit and he took off fees an charges. he sent it back and they gave him a credit card. by sending him the card they effectively accepted his counter offer. their document to him was the offer. he sends back a counter offer
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and they accept it. the judge basically said they didn't read the small print. he made a counter offer to them. they accepted it. he has to pay back the money he spent. what he doesn't have to pay back is any of the charges or interest. here is just an example of the sort of document that you and i might face as we actually, this is from a well known bank here in the united states. keep reading. s >> you missed a bit. >> can we all do this? can we get away with it? >> yes. in theory, of course you can. of course you can. you just scratch out the bit you don't like. you put in the bit you want and send it back. if, what will happen, is the bank will refuse it. the bank will refuse it. there may be a term in this that says no employee can change the terms and conditions any way.
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it's a straightforward contractual question. the danger from the bank's point of view is by accident they accept it. i guarantee you, guarantee you, chase, citi, boa, wells fargo -- >> i bet he guarantees us because he's tried. >> would not accept it. there's a clause on page 463 subsection 7 that says you can't alter. >> you would have read it, woub wouldn't you? >> i tried it once and life was too short and the weekend was upon us. as long as the bank, the machine still accepts it, what more do you want? >> man with unlimited credit. >> we got to see him. >> where's the wallet. >> drinks on richard.
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>> beers on you next week. these folks cannot use the phone. we're talking about al qaeda leaders. w when they need to talk it's chain of connection. when talking about how they communicate in this high-tech world.
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al qaeda as an organization proves pretty good at covering its tracks especially when it comes to how the terrorist communicate with each other. >> analysts are saying the terror groups are online, plugged in. some are using internet resources that we use every day. tom foreman has the details. >> reporter: when al qaeda leaders in far flung corners of the earth need to talk to each other, they don't talk on the phone. they jump on the internet using a complicated chain of commuter connections. although no one knows for sure. this is how they believe it works. parties meet in a private internet chat room where they are extremely cautious even shrouding their written communications in encryption software. beyond that may may send proxies
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to conduct the conversation so that any given moment none of the leaders can be connected to each other or to whatever is being orchestrated. it goes further. instruction from to operatives are sent by trusted couriers to internet caves where they log onto computers and send it to an e-mail account set up for that one message and no other and minutes later the whole trail disappears. >> some security analysts say this combination of technology is the backbone of terrorist communication communications. it works remarkably well. >> i think they allow such groups to flourish and they certainly give them means for
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possible lone wolves to communicate with actual group and offer themselves as potential terrorists. >> need proof? prosecutors say the men accused of boston bombings used jihadi websites for inspiration and bomb building advice. he's believed to have used a hot mail account. >> al qaeda started with one website a decade ago. today we have at least a dozen al qaeda web forms that host thousands of individuals. >> a few years back when the hunt for bin laden was still raging, some intelligence forces believe al qaeda was developing its own intranet that was hidden
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behind some websites and accessible to only a few people. whether they succeeded or such a system still exists like much of their communication structure remained shrouded in mystery. tom forman, cnn, washington. a dad and his son found living deep in the jungle for 40 years. >> why they were living in isolation. that's up next. dad. how did you get here? i don't know. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look... you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you'll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly i as planned.. really? ♪ honey, we need to talk. we do? i took the trash out.
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here are some numbers s tst your head around. japan's debt has topped one quadrillion yen. >> if you're looking at it in u.s. it's $1.5 trillion. big numbers. all right now an incredible story out of vietnam. we're talking about a father and son who emerged after living in isolation in the jungle for 40 years. >> this is according to multiple reports there. the father took his infant son and escaped into the jungle after his wife and two other children were killed by a bomb or land mine. the father and the son have been living in the a tree house 20
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feet above the ground. they were coaxed out this week. i wonder how they're doing. he's a transplant surgeon with a very special bond with her patients. >> at least a transplant patient herself. dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to today's human factor. >> as a transplant surgeon, she's transplanted more than a hundred kidneys. it's what she's wanted to do for as long as she can remember. >> kind of was interested in being a doctor at age four. >> by the time she was eight, she grew up in germany, was in the fight for her life. >> i started having blood in my urine. we couldn't figure out why. it came on suddenly. >> she was diagnosed with a common kidney disease that caused severe inflammation. >> by the time i was 11, in march, i had to start on
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dialysis. >> nine months later she received a new kidney. i worked immediately at first. >> about a week later i had my first rejection episode. >> and then a second and a third all within a month. >> they said it would never work. >> on average it lasts about ten years and doctors gave her kidney a 50/50 chance to last one. she was not about to give up. she became the first child to try an experimental drug and it worked. >> i had something i wanted to do. that was to be a transplant surgeon. >> after high school she and he family moved to the united states so she could go to medical school and pursue that dream. now she shares her own story with her patients. >> the kidney was not working at a fewpoints in time. i walked away 24 years later with excellent kidney function. >> that allowed her to fulfill another dream which was to have a baby with her husband john.
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transplant patients have high risk pregnancies. did develop anemia and high blood pressure but in june noah was born. he was early, but he was healthy. >> if you've had a goal all your life and something gets in your way, set yourself a goal and work towards that goal. then you'll get there. you have something that doesn't let you give up because you have something to look forward to beyond that. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >> amazing story. he worked for eight u.s. presidents from harry truman to ronald reagan. we're talking about his life being the inspiration for the movie "the butler." >> you're a lucky lady. i got to watch that. >> that's next hour. mom, dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart,
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>> > take a look at these remarkable pictures. this is a glow in the dark scorpion. that's really amazing. he's yellow by day. glows under ultraviolet light. isn't that cool? >> the lesson is carry an ultraviolet light if you're walking across the desert. scientists are figuring out why they do that. that will do it for me. thanks for watching. have a good weekend. >> your weekend starts now. >> yours does not. carry on. "cnn newsroom" starts right now.
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people confess to a lot of things on facebook but police say this florida man confessed to killing his wife on the social website. it's bizarre and disturbing. plus, extreme weather hitting much of the kun triecou right now. there are destructive fires in california. deadly flooding across the midwest and the south. we'll give you live reports. you see nothing. you only serve. >> you not he got that job himself. the white house called him. >> i want to hear all the stories. >> i don't know how many stories you'll hear. >> that's the movie "the butler". later be the hour we have one of stars and the movie's director. this is "cnn newsroom." i'm suzanne malveaux. this miami man

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